Portrait of the week | 16 June 2016

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, threatened pensioners who voted in the referendum for Britain to leave the EU: ‘If we leave, the pensioner benefits would be under threat, and the “triple lock” could no longer be guaranteed.’ He also said he might take away their ‘free bus passes and TV licences’, even though the latter are paid for by the BBC. George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said he would put up taxes if there was a vote to leave the EU, but 57 Tory MPs said they would vote against what they called a ‘punishment budget’. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, thanked immigrants for the ‘fantastic service’ they gave to the NHS. Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, said ‘woe betide’ his party if it ignored public concern about immigration. Lord Leach of Fairford, Rodney Leach, who in 2005 set up the think tank Open Europe, died aged 82.